Some great shots from a tour outside and inside of the biggest submarine.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=2525

Great photos. There was some good footage of one of these being cut up on a discovery channel programme. For some strange reason Im sorry to see the damned things go. I hope at least one gets saved for a museum. Cant Clancy buy one?

That boat is in truly outstanding material condition. Slap them nukes back in and she's ready to defend the Motherland.

I like this page better. They don't have quite the same attitude towards the uniform that we do.

Every private goes home a generalissimo.

Great find! Thanks!

First pic: "I can haz subarine?" or "I askd 4 subsanwich, not aktwal subarine!"

Whats with the tassles on the sleeves?
Gotta love central asian style...







What rank is that on his arm? Super-ultra-mega-ninja-master-regimental-command-sergeant-major-of-the-Army?

And why is he in DPM?

Russians use local version of the DPM.

Me too, for the same strange reason.

I imagine if some entrepreneur waved a bucket of cash in front of the right person, that entrepreneur might find oneself in possession of a Typhoon. What to do with it after that would be the real poser. I can't imagine that restoring it to pristine condition would be either cheap or easy, or that outside the confines of the likes of us here on TN likely to be much of a draw.

Sadly.


Shot

You guys in California could park it next to the Queen mary and open it as a Hotel. it already has a swimming pool, if you ripped out the missile tubes, you would have a couple of excellent squash courts.

I kind of regret we didnt preserve our first missile boats, the Resolution class. I guess I understand WHY. You would have CND smashing it up every 5 minutes.

I think one of the C class attack boats was preserved. somewhere. Not surprisingly it wasnt conqueror.

Didnt you Americans preserve Nautilus? What kind of state is she in?

She has her own Museum and everything.

I think the real question was, why no dress uniform?

Hey that control room doesn't look anything like the one seen in Hunt for Red Oktober!

Yeah, the 'scope's not chromed, either.


I think QM was unloaded some time ago. There's an aircraft carrier in San Diego which was turned into a museum (Midway?). Maybe aforementioned entrepreneur could park the Typhoon there.

I'm wondering if the Soviets would like to give up a Shkval or a SLBM to stand alongside. I'm betting not...


Shot

You could try and smuggle drugs out of South America with it.

You could smuggle every single drug out of South America with that ginormous SOB!

Thar she blows! > http://www.midway.org/

One has been overhauled and refitted to carry Bulava SLBMs and is currently used as testbed for the program. It has been suggested in some sources that an other boat or two might be likewise refitted and put back in service once Bulava is put in production, with "might" being the key word here.
Personally I doubt it is going to happen but who knows.
K-19 has been purchased and saved from scrapping (for the moment at least ) by a former crew member turned oligarch, so that route is not outside the realm of possibilities. Still much less likely than refit.

New owner of the boat. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Romanov

The USS Milwaukee being scrapped and decommissioned since around 1993 did not seem to have that much rust

Too bad we don't have a time machine! Can you imagine what the CIA would have paid for those pics in 1984?

Pics nothing. Imagine telling the CIA that hey, i can get you onboard one in a Russian Harbor. No problem at all. Just give me the following in large bills. OF course, if I had access to a time machine, I'd go back, sequester a bunch of WWI, WWII AFVs and aircraft in some remote warehouse and make sure I had the title for the next 80 years. Imagine the going price for a gaggle of unflown moth-bolled P51s, P38s, B25s and Spitfires and Typhoons.

Duh.. You got it all wrong boyyo. The important question is: What would Village People have been willing to pay for those suupa-trendy uniform pics (yes, the ones in Lukes post) back in 1974?
(More than I make a mon.. uh.. a yea.. ..ok in a lifetime, I bet ).

I see I'm not the only one who has had that idea. Imagine opening up your warehouse and bringing out some WW2 warbirds, or 10 carefully maintained Panther G's? Even better, be the guy with the pockets to purchase the various experimental tanks and planes that were tested after the war and then sold for scrap. Oh, you want a Type 5 Chi-Ri? Let the bidding begin. . .

Matt

Typhoons will come back in service
2009-06-29

The world’s biggest ever built submarines – Typhoon-class – will be put into service again in Russia’s Northern fleet.

Three of the originally built six Typhoon-class submarines are scrapped. The decommissioning work on the last of these was completed in the beginning of June as BarentsObserver.com reported.

Today, only one submarine in the Typhoon-class remains operational. This submarine, Dmitry Donskoi, is used as a test platform for the new Bulava sea based intercontinental missiles, as previous reported by BarentsObserver.com. So far, the fate of the two last, Severstal and Arkhangelsk, have been unclear, but as BarentsObserver.com reported in April, these two could be put back into service again. Severstal and Arkhangelsk today remain in reserve at a Belomorsk naval base in Severodvinsk.

Now it is official; - We will keep these submarines in service, Russia’s navy chief Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, told RIA-Novosti on Friday.

According to the news agency both Severstal and Arkhangelsk will most likely be modernized to carry next generation sea-base missiles.

The 175 meter (574 feet) long and 24,000 tons heavy vessel is the largest nuclear powered submarine ever built. During the Cold War the six Typhoon-class submarines were based at the naval base in Zapadnaya Litsa, only some 50 kilometres from the border to Norway.

http://www.barentsobserver.com/typhoons-wi...1023-58932.html